THE U-2 AFFAIRS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010023-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2014
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: January 1, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'The U-2 Affairs.
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1The jew?Med prose of Premier Khrushchev's protest-note writer at the
oi Foreign Ministry has again flashed to the World. Russia's cherished
theme: that the U. S. is faithless, that its itch for sky-spying has become
hrohic, and that Russia's punishment will be swift. If nothing else has
pened in the changeover at Washington front Eisenhower to Kennedy, the
'difference in the'response to the U-2
episodes is almost worth the wrack reruy today) seems to have eaten On-
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and wrangle of the election campaign. easily into our imagination: "Who's in
37 is a grim thought that each new charge here?"
American President may have to be If things have not improved from
jinigtsl by how he reacts,.to some new
the Allen Dulles tenure in the cm
to the John McCone tenure, and if the
technicians are still running the show,
then we shall be in for a bad time.
That is why I hope fervently that
President Kernedy was truthful as
well as prudent when he told the Rus-
SiallA that the violation of Soviet ter-
vitory mer Sakhalin was due to witkdl*
not design.
There is nothing wrong with havlas
U-28 in the Pacific if they are as this
one seems to have been) sampling the
effects of nuclear tests, whether So let
or American. But It would he stupid
at this date to continue the "electronic
esteolegc? ei tai4 costly diplomatic
price the Russians are exacting.
U-2 et isis. ?
are always caes where the
head of state must toll something less
than the truth when his country is
Gaught in a tight spot. The trouble
with Presitiamt Eisenhower In his U-2
elisode was that he fl,st told a co?e;-
sto, y be and then told more troll
was vilitically pi udent.
Hence the judgment of David Wise
am! Thomas B. Ross. in their level-
headed book, "The U-2 Mrs,'" tRan-
doml. which appeated last spiirl---
tw, years after Vie evei?t itself. By
assuming responsibIty tool by mak t.g
a virtue of what was. al best 1 nastla
necessity, Eisenhowet effect implied
that the overflights wouki go on. 11
this eontext, Wise and RPSS rihtIi
tonelcde, Khrushcliev had Lille 'twice
ex. et.t to mangle the summit
Thus diplomatic and political use of
eyely episode. are and small, baa
There hi another jusditywreat by N144 1..-come the thatact ?ristic skill of r..1..1
ism! Ross that I lik. It 15 their 7: t a Kin oshchev .egi is'. I suspect that
that the Powers mission over R.r,s,t Ithrushithey ;1.7n 4.,f is iii?-gely vespon-
l?as not by the President's order r. .10Ie lov it, alvt 'fiat he is flchar?e
r?en with his knowledge, but a dc ,,,t 0,er e. 14. aosil the episode of the
of the intelligence Pe-Tie. for whorl lying tie: Ulan St ti-tt wall to give
iheu intelligence "si ? tit, rPRS,ki to he 14,; ;i? aur.mity
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an Instrument of I i???/:(?,- l'irf F:iist SerLn: he t:ld the episwie
mot become a?? eon ,c4-11 orlt ? shel jog oi ina to eiti-
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, a , moat , e, io apply only to
, t a ? aolltics even more urgent
, ni:. war youth science and
i r he task of teaching them
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